1933
As this month's edition is being written, the kids have fine full-blown colds but are looking forward to their return to the mines at P. S. No. 1 after a two weeks' vacation, the new year is not too old although some of its shiny resolutions are already slightly tarnished, and we are contemplating with mixed feelings the untrimming and removal of the Christmas tree. Speaking of the Christmas tree, we thought we had developed this year a foolproof system for its selection. The system was ridiculously simple in conception and entailed merely getting the whole family to go on the expedition to pick out the tree. As so often happens even with the best of plans, however, the execution was faulty. Helen couldn't go! The result was what you might expect — the first tree picked didn't meet favor with the children nor did the second; the third satisfied everybody until our caravan reached home. Mama didn't like it! There was reason for her complaints, of course. The tree did look a mite skinny and somewhat puny when it stood in the living room. But by dint of a four to one majority and her skilful banking of green boughs under and around and beyond the tree, she was persuaded not to go right out the next day and buy another, and in time we came to quite love our little balsam. Maybe next year the whole family can get out to pick the tree!
As you read this month's edition, however, old man groundhog either has or hasn't seen his shadow, your first bout with income taxes is well behind you if you estimate your tax, and most of you are waiting for or have just received your annual quota of valentines. Maybe by now the Postoffice Department has been reorganized, and in sweeping out the dusty corners the man has found the hundreds of letters crammed with news which we know you have all written your secretary. Until these letters appear, our mailbag remains light and our news hopper spare. Some recent gleanings, however, are these:
A very cute card from Elsa and Harry Osborne, posted from Cranford, N. J., serves the double purpose of extending Christmas and Near Year greetings and announcing that
Harry Theodore Osborne arrived on December 3. From Monagan, the watchman of Waterbury, comes part of a page from Time announcing the birth in Santa Monica of Timothy John Weston to Paul Weston and wife Jo Stafford, whose pictures appeared here recently. Apparently Judy Garland and husband had a daughter Lorna the same day in Santa Monica. Looks like Tim is all set for a Carnival date in 1972 or thereabouts.
A card from Elliot and Rachel Blakesley, 9623 E. Lemon Ave., Temple City, Calif., showing their three handsome and growing children (two boys and a girl). Ellie says he is still with the F.8.1, after more than 13 years but has been in southern California for over two years, has bought a home and hopes they'll be allowed to stay awhile. He brings up an interesting proposition which we have heard bruited before, to wit, that T.V. is a tremendous aid in keeping the youngsters from tearing the house apart. How many of you subscribe to this same theory?
Ted and Laura Allen's beautiful card states they like Scotia and General Electric, they plan to be at the 25th (where Ted can climb back on the piano), and they have a new tenyear-old daughter, Deanna. Congratulations, kids, on all counts.
Dick Pearson '20 sends a clipping from Publishers 'Weekly of November 29 concerning our old Streeter Hall buddy, Lyle M. Spencer, who has hung up quite a record in spite of the fact he left Dartmouth to graduate from University of Washington where his father was prexy. Leave us give you a fast rundown. Lyle, president of Science Research Associates, has been elected chairman of the Young Presidents Association in Chicago, an organization of executives who, by the age of 39, have become presidents of firms with at least a millions dollars in annual sales. (Any of you other YP's who can qualify and wish to join this exclusive Association, shoot your applications to this corner and we'll see that Lyle gets 'em after we note the record.) Lyle founded Science Research in 1939 and was named one of the "ten young men of the year" by the Junior Chamber of Commerce in 1940. He was chief of the Analysis Planning Branch of the Army's Information and Education Division and developed the point score demobilization system. (Now you. finally know who to thank for eventually getting you out of the Army!) He is a member of the board of directors of the American Textbook Publishers Institute and the board of governors of the Menninger Foundation. Not bad, huh? Let's hear more about you direct from you, Lyle.
Norm and Betty Crabtree, whom we mentioned recently as having been newly discovered as neighbors, left for Blighty aboard the Media on February 6. Carborundum has a new plant near Liverpool and Norm is to be the manager. For Norm this is a fine promotion, an exciting opportunity and a to renew many friendships, and for Betty it means going home since she was brought up in Liverpool and has lived most of her life there. They promise to be back for the 25th and probably several times before that. Until they are settled in their own home, their address will be c/o W. Harvey Steel, 34 Aigburth Drive, Liverpool 17, Lancashire, England.
Stan Colla we see once in a while in BufEalo where he works for Socony-Vacuum. Stan's boy played a lot of football for Nichols School but we're afraid he's headed for Yale, even though there will be a good Dartmouth contingent from Nichols.
The Stoneham (Mass.) Independent of October 30 foretold that Jus Stanley would be the principal speaker at the Melrose Dartmouth Club dinner on November 13. We suspect that Jus has been the principal speaker at many other such affairs since that time, and we hereby set forth the tentative future policy of not reporting here each time that Stanley makes a speech. We are willing to wager a small sum that Jus does a splendid job on the circuit, but we would like to know for sure from some of you sharpies down around Melrose how his speeches stack up. Any replies, of course, will be treated more or less confidentially, but they will be of tremendous assistance to us personally in deciding, when Jus comes to Buffalo, whether just to ask him down to the house to spend the night or whether to try to catch the speechmaking too. Among the new addresses are those of:
Arthur R. Boissecu, 3636 Carmona St., Apt. C, Los Angeles 16. William Kimball Flaccus, 48 Horatio St., N.Y.C. 14. Dr. Charles B. Hinds Jr., 50 Drake Rd., Bend, Ore. Ford Mar den, R. D. 2, New Hartford, N. Y. Ralph F. Wolff, Old Field Rd,. Setauket, N. Y. (also Grumman Aircraft Eng. Corp., Bethpage, N. Y.) Richard O. Haugan, 715 Rose Ave., Des Plaines, 111. Roger B. Moody, 125 Walker St., Cambridge, Mass.
Au revoir, mes enfants, until the Ides of March.
LABOR ASSIGNMENT: Sam Stephenson Jr. '33, a member of the Anaconda Copper Mining Com- pany's legal department at Butte-Anaconda, Mont., since 1945, now heads the newly formed labor re- lations department.
Secretary, 217 Goundry Street, North Tonawanda, N. Y. Treasurer, Quechee, Vt.
